Part of Ana Seggiaro’s acclaimed Cartographies series, the composition repurposes an old school map of the world, utilizing its aged, sun-dried skin-like black rubber texture as a visual laboratory for dense linear exploration. Seggiaro painstakingly re-architects the global cartography through a meticulous, hand-executed embroidery intervention. The focal point features a colossal, hypnotic concentric vortex of white threads over the Eurasian continent, framing a heavily saturated carmine red core that simulates a cosmic eye or an alternate meteorological lens. This complex graphic structure is balanced by intricate, multi-colored circular medallions and intersecting thread vectors in deep cobalt blues, warm ochres, and bright greens.
 
In the mid-2000s, Ana Seggiaro made her first small-scale collage works on paper. Starting from pages of books, maps, and scores, she carries out the first series intervened through embroidery and painting. In these works she finds the universe of cartographies, using maps as supports for the construction of imaginary geographies. This search leads her to tackle larger works. Thus, she recovers old school maps worn by use, where the black rubber acquires a broken texture, generating a topography like that of skin dried by the sun. She intervenes in these maps with abstract figures and images of paper airplanes that fly over unknown landscapes.
 
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